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The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present / Roy Porter.
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TextPublication details: New York: London W.W. Norton & Company, 1998Description: xvi, 831 pages : illustrationsISBN: - 0393319806
- 0002151731
- ARCH YNDC 610.9 P844G 21
- R131 .P59 1997
- WZ 40
Contents:
Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future.
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SAIACS Archives Room | Yandell Collection | ARCH YNDC 610.9 P844G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 061987 |
British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index.
Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future.
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